Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.

The Louvre is the book in which we learn to read.

Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre.

Time and reflection change the sight little by little 'till we come to understand.

People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.

The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.

Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else - by color.

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent

Life before consciousness was like blank paper, so be it.

Of all our infirmities the most savage is to despise our being.

The only way marriage can work is if a man respects the woman and she is a thinking woman and he wants to work on the marriage.

Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.

Domenech is the worst coach France have had since Louis XVI.

I've worked with the great and the not-so-great. But mostly, I've worked with men and women who loved their profession and who, like me, had kids to raise and houses to pay for.

A child, when it begins to speak, learns what it is that it knows.

No one's so old that he mayn't with decency hope for one more day.

I didn't really like jazz that much and was unhappy in that genre. It was what I was doing just to get by and pay rent.